Starting as a spiritual plant master, may I eventually become the master of all lands.

Song Chuan looked at the five people and was greatly surprised!

They were all at the Core Formation stage, and one of them was tall and imposing with a hooked nose.

His thick beard extended all the way down to his chin, forming a large tuft that looked like a clump of black hair.

Behind the black fur hung a soft, large fleshy lump that swayed back and forth.

Around his neck hung a bone chain made of ribs.

Looking at this person, Song Chuan suddenly thought of the two first-tier demonic birds he had seen outside Daicheng, the Huwujiu.

Could this person's true form be a kind of demonic vulture?

Standing to the side of this person was a plump middle-aged woman with a pale face and a semi-circular ear peeking out from the buns on either side of her head.

Strangely, large and small demonic rats were crawling all over the woman's body, which was quite terrifying.

Most of these demon rats are Tier 1, and there are a few Tier 2!

They were all born with white faces and gray bodies, and semi-circular ears, quite different from ordinary rodents, but rather somewhat similar to this woman.

Is this an opossum?

Song Chuan recalled a rare type of rodent, the opossum, where the female carries dozens of offspring on her back and "raises them closely."

Then look at the other person, whose body is only half a person's height. His two eyebrows, however, are unusually long and hang down to the ground.

His pupils were jet black, his nose twitched occasionally, and there were three almost transparent white hairs on each side.

For some unknown reason, this person appeared restless and kept looking back.

The other two were both stunningly beautiful women with slender figures!

A person dressed in black, yet tiny specks of light emanated from their clothes.

Song Chuan's heart stirred. These fireflies seemed to be emanating from various acupoints on the woman's body. How amazing!

The other one, dressed in emerald green, most resembled a human, but upon closer inspection, one could see two ant-like antennae protruding from her coiled hair, which would quickly retract.

The woman was playing with a leaf in her hand, on which ants about the length of an index finger were crawling around. These ants were all first-level ants!

Song Chuan found it very strange. Could this woman's true form be a kind of demonic ant? Logically speaking, a third-order insect should not be able to take on a human appearance.

She also glanced at Duanmu Jingyi and Fairy Zhaohua, as if to say hello.

These five individuals possessed powerful auras, in no way inferior to the human Core Formation cultivators present, and all of them had reached the first step of the Transformation Realm, the Skin Transformation Realm.

It's just unknown how long these five demons can maintain their human form.

The Qi Refining cultivators present looked at these five people as if they had seen some kind of natural enemy, feeling horrified and uncomfortable.

"Five fellow Daoists, how have you been?" Old Daoist Chen clasped his hands in a salute and smiled.

It seems that this old Taoist Chen is the person in charge among the human cultivators present. Song Chuan couldn't help but take another look at him.

The middle-aged woman, who appeared to be a possum in disguise, replied in a stiff voice:

"Chen Yuntian, although this place is inhabited by demon-transforming stage and first-order demon beasts, we don't know if anyone has broken through to the second order and stayed here in the past hundred years."

"Hehe, you little human creatures who dare to venture into the mountains should think twice!"

The woman got straight to the point, without any polite words, and revealed something that caused unease among the Qi Refining cultivators.

There might even be a second-tier demon beast, which is equivalent to a Foundation Establishment cultivator in the human race!

Although demonic beasts have low intelligence and varying degrees of innate supernatural abilities, even the weakest second-tier demonic beast is beyond the capabilities of Qi Refining cultivators.

Unless Qi Refining cultivators have a large group and a counter-magical artifact, they will have a chance to fight.

"Fellow Daoist Fu, rest assured, these juniors are just gathering some spiritual herbs that are useful to human cultivators and bringing a few 'companions' with them. They certainly won't be foolish enough to run into second-tier demonic beasts."

Old Master Chen still smiled and said, glancing around at the Qi Refining cultivators present as he spoke, probably to give them a hint.

"Hmph! Since the alliance is still in effect, we won't care whether you gather spiritual herbs or capture spiritual beasts."

The woman surnamed Fu snorted coldly, and the demonic rats on her body scurried up and down, some even standing on her head and peering at the crowd.

Let alone Qi Refining cultivators, even Foundation Establishment cultivators dared not breathe loudly when they saw her.

"Judging from this surname, it really is the Opossum!" Song Chuan thought to himself.

"Hehe! That's good." Chen Yuntian looked completely at ease.

"Chen Yuntian, it's been many years, and you've become even more shameless. You call capturing demonic beasts 'bringing along some 'partners.' I'd like to see how many of your human cultivators' 'partners' will be left behind forever this time."

The tall man laughed in extreme anger, his voice booming like a bell.

"Oh dear! Fellow Daoist Hu, it's all business, let's not ruin things. Those who die inside are just fertilizer for your Kongsang Mountains, you won't lose out!"

Fairy Zhaohua smiled alluringly, her exotic beauty breathtaking, yet her words chilled the Qi Refining cultivator to the bone.

Song Chuan's expression was rather unpleasant.

Just as the Kongsang Mountains were clearing out excess demonic beasts, weren't humans also clearing out these small fry?

Otherwise, given the human race's population and numbers, coupled with its predatory nature, how long could this world last?

At this moment, the man, whose face was full of anxiety, finally couldn't hold back any longer and waved his hands, saying:

"Stop talking nonsense! Hurry up and let you little brats into the mountains."

But there is one thing: if anyone encounters this beast and dares to harm it or secretly take it outside without my knowledge, I will make them wish they were dead!

After speaking, before anyone could be surprised, the man flipped his hand and took out a painting. On it was a small white beast with long eyebrows, baring its teeth and claws, lifelike.

Upon taking a look, Song Chuan suddenly remembered a famous monster.

A Wind Fox Beast! So that explains why this person's eyebrows looked familiar.

This is a naturally occurring demonic beast, not an ordinary beast transformed into a demon.

Moreover, it is a wind-attribute monster, and it is said to possess a unique and extremely difficult-to-kill innate ability.

This person's words and actions left everyone present speechless for quite some time.

"Fellow Daoist Li, you're too kind! You heard everything, didn't you?" Chen Yuntian said with a smile.

But everyone present guessed that this beast must have a great connection with this long-browed monster.

The long-browed demon beast looked intently at the people from the Long Spoon Sect, the Beast Taming Sect, and the Suspended Gourd Pavilion, seemingly wanting to say something, but after a moment of utter ashen expression, it remained silent.

Song Chuan understood: one of these three sects was looking for ingredients, another was looking for rare monsters, and the third was using monsters to refine pills.

"Have you all finished speaking? I have a question for you. Ten years ago, I sent a Core Formation cultivator to the Kongsang Mountains, but he hasn't returned since. I wonder if any of you fellow cultivators have seen him?"

A Core Formation cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect suddenly spoke up.

"The Kongsang Mountains are hundreds of mountains, and we ourselves don't even wander around, so how would we know where your people have gone?"

"Once you enter Kongsang, you are responsible for your own life and death. Fellow Daoist, you'd better be mentally prepared."

The woman in the emerald green dress said coldly.

"You..." The Core Formation cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect was speechless for a moment.

No wonder ordinary Core Formation cultivators don't usually come here on their own; it turns out they might not even make it out alive. Song Chuan finally understood this.

"Let's go into the mountains!"

At this moment, Chen Yuntian waved his arm, and the two thousand Qi Refining cultivators who were eager to try began to enter the clouds in batches from different places on the outer edge of the Kongsang Mountains.

In the blink of an eye, only the human leader and the five demons of Kongsang remained in the arena.